A 22-year-old Rabi man has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for brutally assaulting and raping a 68-year-old woman on the 2nd of September this year.
The court heard that the man drank homebrew from 4pm on the 1st of September about 9am on the following day, and then attacked the woman while she was returning from her daughter’s residence.
Justice Salesi Temo said that the man attacked the 68-year-old woman by repeatedly punching her face, ribs and stomach, and then raped her.
He had pleaded guilty to the charges.
Justice Temo has set a non-parole period of 11 years.
